Chris joined Matrix in June 2007. Before joining Matrix he was CEO of Whitehead Mann Group Plc, the publicly listed executive recruitment firm, which was taken private by an MBI team in late 2006. Prior to that he was Finance Director of Clifford Chance LLP, the global law firm. Chris began his career with Coopers & Lybrand where he became a partner in the audit practice in 1994. He spent 2 years in New York in the late 1980s and was based in China from 1994 to 1997 as Managing Partner of Coopers & Lybrand’s Shanghai office.

Paul joined Matrix in June 2010 as Chief Operating Officer for Asset Management. He has almost ten years of experience as CFO/COO in the alternatives sector and prior to that held senior roles with Merrill Lynch. Credit Lyonnais and Natwest Markets. Paul started his career with Arthur Andersen where he qualified as a chartered accountant within the financial markets audit practice. He is also a qualified corporate treasurer.

Bridget is Managing Director of Matrix Money Mangement. Prior to joining Matrix, Bridget accumulated 16 years' of retail investment fund experience at Schroder Unit Trusts Limited, Ivory & Sime and County NatWest. Bridget sits on the Board of Matrix Alternative Investment Strategies Fund Limited, an open ended fund of hedge funds and Matrix Structured Products Limited, a closed ended fund in Bermuda.

Tiraneh initially joined Matrix as a consultant in Jan 2010 and shortly after took the role of head of risk for the asset management business. She has joined us from Man Global Strategies, Man Investments where she was head of risk for nearly five years. Prior to that she was risk manager at Abbey National Treasury Services. Tiraneh started her city career at JP Morgan and is a chartered accountant.

Luke is a Director and Head of Retail and Institutional Business Development. He is in charge of distribution for Matrix Asset Management fund of hedge funds, single hedge funds, alternative funds, structured products and UCIT funds. He joined Matrix Money Management at the start of the business in January 2000 and was appointed a Director two years later. Prior to Matrix, Luke gained considerable investment experience with 15 years at investment houses including M & G and Prudential.

Richard joined Matrix Money Management in 2002 and is responsible for promoting fund of hedge funds, structured products and single hedge funds. After graduating from Leeds University, Richard started his career with Schroder Unit Trusts Limited where he built up extensive knowledge of the retail and institutional fund management industry. Richard has over 14 years industry experience including roles at Dresdner RCM and Premier Asset Management.

Glenn joined Matrix in 2004 and is responsible for promoting fund of hedge funds, UCITS III Funds, structured products and single manager hedge funds. Prior to Matrix, Glenn was with American Express Asset Management where he had a key role within both retail and institutional sales. He also spent a number of years with INVESCO, based in their Jersey and London offices. Glenn has over 14 years experience in the Asset Management industry with a number of leading investment companies.

Chris joined Matrix Money Management in April 2010 having spent four years with Legal & General Investment Management distributing their unit trust range. He graduated from Kingston Business School in 2006 during which time he completed a placement year within the financial services industry. Chris now assumes responsibilities for the distribution of Matrix’ single strategy hedge funds, fund of hedge funds and externally managed funds.

Prior to joining Matrix in 2008, Alexandra was a partner at the Fund of Hedge Funds, Collingham Capital Management for 7 years. Alexandra graduated with an Msc in Law and Accounting from the London School of Economics and a BComm. from University College of Dublin.

Sam joined Matrix Group having gained experience at Fidelity International as part of the Wealth Manager Sales team. Prior to this Sam worked as an Investment Analyst at a Wealth Manager in London. Sam studied Management at the Judge Business School at Cambridge University, before which he graduated from Southampton University with a BA in Geography.

Lizzie joined Matrix in October 2008 and was initially a member of the marketing team responsible for Matrix’ range of alternative investment funds, including fund of hedge and single funds. In February 2010 she joined Matrix Alternative Asset Management, our single hedge fund division, as Sales and Investor Relations Executive. Prior to joining Matrix Lizzie was a member of the British Olympic Sailing Team and spent four years campaigning the single-handed women’s dinghy, the Laser Radial. She narrowly missed out on selection for the Games in Beijing. She studied Classics at Oxford and graduated in 2003.

Helen joined Matrix in August 2005 and works as the Head of Broker Desk in the retail division. Helen previously worked for Friends Provident for over 8 years gaining experience in a variety of Sales and Administration roles in the Financial Services Industry.

Poppy joined Matrix in February 2009 to support the sales team for alternative funds. Prior to this she worked for the PR and Marketing department of The Royal Collection and read History of Art and English Literature at Oxford Brookes University.

Prior to joining Matrix, Stuart was a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Collingham Capital Management for over 4 years. CCM was the Investment Manager responsible for the management of the Matrix Horizon Fund. Prior to CCM, Stuart had extensive experience in trading various Arbitrage strategies for hedge funds. This includes Convertible Arbitrage for both EA Capital and UBK Asset Management. Prior to that he was a Fixed Income Arbitrage trader for Litchfield Capital. Stuart holds a business degree from the University of Brighton.

Prior to joining Matrix, Ramon has over 11 years experience in the financial credit industry. Previously he was Risk Manager for Credit Funds at Cheyne Capital, responsible for monitoring and risk managing a diversified portfolio of 14 alternative investment credit funds. Prior to this he worked, first as a Credit Risk Manager, then a Credit Trader for Lloyds TSB Bank, and then an Executive Director of Credit Risk for Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and a Credit Analyst for both Banca Monte dei Paschi di Sienna and Banca March. Ramon is bilingual in English and Spanish.

Justine joined Matrix in November 2008. She has 12 years experience of working within the financial services sector and spent the last six as Head of Operational Due Diligence, Fund of Hedge Funds, for First State Investments (the UK arm of Colonial First State Global Asset Management). Prior to that Justine worked for both State Street Global Advisors and JPMorgan Fleming as a risk/business analyst.

Angela rejoined Matrix in October 2008 as an analyst in the investment team, joining us from Grenfell PAI Ltd where she worked as an operations analyst for 2 years. Prior to Grenfell, she had worked in Matrix Registrars for 4 years.

Chris is an analyst in the investment team at Matrix. Having read PPE at Oxford he then worked for Cazenove Capital Management and UBS in private client and project management respectively.

Adam joined Matrix in August 2005 and is a Director of Matrix Money Management. Adam is responsible for overseeing all operational aspects of Matrix’ retail products. Previously he served in HM Forces with 1 RHA where he completed Tours of North Belfast and Iraq. He graduated from Cambridge University after earning a Masters in Natural Sciences.

Damian joined Matrix in June 2010 as an Operations Analyst for Matrix Money Management. Previously he worked for State Street Corporation and Arjent Stockbrokers.

Ben joined Matrix having graduated from Cambridge University in the summer of 2006. At Cambridge Ben gained a BA (Hons) in History and studied Management at the Judge Business School. Ben is responsible for marketing Matrix’ range of retail products to Independent Financial Advisors.

Chris joined Matrix in February 2010. After graduating in 2006 with a BSc (Hons) in Economics, he went to work for Goldman Sachs in Auckland for two years as an Analyst in the Private Wealth Management division. Chris then spent 2009 travelling the world before joining Matrix as a Marketing Executive.

Rupert joined Matrix in February 2008 to run the Matrix Asia Fund. He joined Mercury Asset Management, latterly Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, from university in 1994, and left in 2001 to found FM Capital Management, where he managed a Japanese-equity long/short fund for six years.

David Peerless joined Matrix in 2009 as Senior Analyst for the Matrix Asia Fund, working with Rupert Foster. Prior to joining Matrix, David was Head of Research at Evolution Securities China Ltd, based in Shanghai. Previously, he managed Procter & Gamble’s brand protection program in China.

Sam joined Matrix in January 2010 as Senior Analyst for the Matrix Asia Fund. Previously Sam worked as an analyst at Cantillon Capital Management in London. Before that he worked with Rupert Foster at FM Capital Management in Tokyo and London. Sam holds an MA from Stanford University and a BA from Oxford University.

David joined Matrix in June 2006 to manage the Matrix New Europe Fund. His investment management career began in 1982 and he spent 17 years at Henderson Global Investors where he was a Director and Head of UK Institutional Equities. He is an Associate of the Society of Investment Professionals.

Paul Spence, who joined Matrix in November 2005, has had a 20-year career within financial services. Initially at BZW, Paul spent time in Japan rebuilding the trading business, returning to the UK in 1997 as head of global macro. At Barclays Capital he formed an internal equity hedge fund for which he ran the global macro strategy. Paul left Barclays in 1999, and joined Abingdon Capital plc to set up Mountcashel LLP and launched the Mountcashel Fund in May 2004.

Gennaro Pucci is Founding Partner and CIO of PVE Capital. Previously he was Head of Trading at Credaris where he was responsible for the management of assets in excess of $1bn. Credaris' two funds were a $900m Credit Fund and the $170m Credaris Credit Fund (formally Correlation Fund). This latter fund was nominated at the 2008 Eurohedge Awards for Best New Fund, Best Credit Fund and Best Hedge Fund. Prior to Credaris, Gennaro was a Senior Structured Credit Trader at Commerzbank Securities (2004 - 2005), Head of Structured Credit Trading at MPS Finance Banca Mobiliare (2000 - 2004) and a Derivatives Trader at Cofiri Sim SPA (1996 - 2000).

Christian is one of the Founding Partners of PVE Capital LLP. He has 13 years experience in the credit markets most recently at UBS Principal Finance and at London-based hedge fund Credaris where he traded relative value strategies. Prior to 2005, Christian held a number of different market-making roles at Credit Suisse, DLJ and PaineWebber before that. Christian holds an MSc in International Securities, Investment and Banking from the ICMA Centre, University of Reading.

Joe started his career in 1985 at Salomon Brothers in NY (and was in the training program featured in the book, Liars Poker). In 1986 he moved to London and worked in Equity Sales, then Equity Derivative Sales, and then formed Salomon’s Quantitative Marketing Unit. In 1998 he left Salomon and started a quant hedge fund. In 2003 his company Mirabella Financial Services started helping other funds to setup under his company’s FSA umbrella and it continues to provide regulatory facilitation today. In 2007 he joined GML Capital, a $600m emerging market hedge fund manager, as COO, and compliance officer.

Elena manages PVE’s credit research group. She has over 16 years experience in Fixed Income having worked as a credit research analyst in London for a number of leading global investment banks. Prior to joining PVE, Elena spent nine years at Citi (formerly Citigroup) as a Managing Director in Fixed Income. Her last assignment was to set up and head European Leverage Loans Analysis. Before working at Citi, she was a Director in credit research at Credit Suisse, and before that at Merrill Lynch. Throughout her career, Elena has covered investment grade, high yield and distressed credits and has been a top ranked analyst in Autos and Consumers/Retail.

Rachel joined PVE Capital in September 2009 having previously worked at UBS for 12 years. Whilst with UBS, Rachel was Head of The Principal Finance ABS trading desk and a member of the Brooklands Credit Committee. Rachel's responsibilities included the trading and risk management of a $6bn portfolio of ABS bonds including RMBS, CMBS, NPL, consumer assets and synthetic and cash CDO and CLO positions.

Loren Remetta joined as a trader of liquid credit products in June 2010 to strengthen the trading platform. He is a skilled index trader with over 10 years experience as a market maker and taking proprietary risk. He was most recently at UBS in London, where he was hired to rebuild the European index business and improve the profile of the CDS franchise. Before this he spent 5 years at Bank of America, where he was the head of European Index trading and the primary risk taker for the European credit business. Loren has an Economics degree from the Pennsylvania State University.

Alexei has 14 years experience as a credit analyst. Most recently, he worked as a Portfolio Manager at Credaris from 2006 to 2010, covering ABS and CDO trading and advisory. He oversaw all ABS and cash CDO trading activities for all vehicles and client mandates. Prior to this, he was a Senior Credit Manager for HBOS Treasury Services, a Credit Manager at Co-operative Bank, and a Credit Analyst at Lazard. He holds a BSc with Honours in Banking and International Finance from Cass Business School, where he wrote his dissertation on modelling capital efficiency of Asset Based Securities.

Judith joined PVE Capital in November 2009 as an analyst. She has extensive experience having worked as a credit analyst in London for 15 years. She previously worked at Legal & General Investment Management, Julius Baer Asset Management and most recently at Credaris with PVE Capital partners Gennaro Pucci and Christian Evans. She also qualified as a chartered accountant with Coopers & Lybrand.

David joined PVE Capital in March 2010. He was previously at Credaris, analysing and developing pricing model for various structured credit and ABS products. He has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Auckland, New Zealand. He worked as a research fellow with the University of Southampton, where he conducted research on computational economics for two years. He is a FRM® holder and passed all three levels of the CFA exams.

Helene joined PVE in April as Product Specialist. Previously, she spent over three years at Merrill Lynch as a credit analyst in two proprietary trading teams. Her investment experience spans a variety of styles and products: CDS, cash bonds, private equity and public equity. Before this, she worked for the Hessische Landesbank in Frankfurt. Helene graduated with a BA from Yale University in Economics in 2003 and has passed all three levels of the CFA exams.

Melody joined PVE Capital as a CDO Analyst and Trader in May 2010. Prior to PVE, Melody had worked closely with Gennaro at Credaris as an Investment Analyst since 2006. Her focus was primarily on synthetic CDO tranches and the associated single name and correlation risks. She spent two years managing the single name exposure of the synthetic bespoke CDO book and was made a Portfolio Manager for the book of CSOs on several Advisory mandates. She graduated from the University of Brighton in 2006 with a BSc in Mathematics for Finance.

Ferruccio joined Matrix in June 2010. A graduate from Bocconi University in Milan, he spent his entire career in the Investment Banking industry, as Managing Director in Morgan Stanley (1992 – 1996 and then again 2002 – 2006), Deutsche Bank (1996 – 2002) and Bank of America (2006 – 2009), covering different senior roles in the Fixed Income Trading and Sales areas with European and Global focus.

Craig joined PVE Capital in June 2010. Previously he spent over 3 years at Credaris where he was Manager of the Middle office & Operations team. Prior To Credaris Craig was at HSBC & JP Morgan working in their Product Control departments.

Paul joined in January 2008 from Shooter Fund Management where he ran their Operations, managing a variety of roles. Paul started in the City in 1984 in International Banking and moved through many mergers and takeovers. Most recently he spent over 7 years with Robert Fleming, and then JP Morgan, in their Middle Office covering global equities, credit and fixed income.

Michael joined Matrix in October 2008 as the Operations Assistant for MAAM. He previously worked for Deutsche Bank and a New Bond Street Asset Management covering various OTC products. Michael previously worked for the France Telecom Group spending two years in Global Sourcing and two years as a Business Analyst in the Engineering department.

Arjola joined Matrix in March 2010 as the Operations Analyst for MAAM. She previously worked for Tradar Limited as a Product Analyst within the Product Management team specialising in Software and Hedge Fund enhancements.

Susanne joined Matrix in September 2009 as Operations Analyst, supporting PVE Capital LLP . Previously she worked for Credaris and Bear Stearns International. She holds a degree in Business Law from the Unitversity of Applied Sciences in Germany, Nuertingen.

Sudeep has more than 16 years of experience trading securities in emerging markets. He was formerly a Senior Portfolio Manager of emerging markets for Caxton Associates, LLC, and served as Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Lotus Capital Partners, LLP. Previously, Sudeep was Senior Portfolio Manager for Sigma Capital, a London-based affiliate of SAC Capital Management, LLC, head of Europe, Africa and Middle East P i T Proprietary Trading at Chase Manhattan Bank in London, as well as managing Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette's Emerging Markets Proprietary Trading for hard currency assets in London. He was also a founding member of the Emerging Market Relative Value Trading group at J.P. Morgan and managed their Latin American equity position-taking book. Sudeep holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from the University of Vermont.

Giancarlo is Chief Economist of Redux Research Ltd and visiting professor to the Universita' Carlo Cattaneo of Castellanza, Italy. He was formerly the Global Head of Emerging Market Research at WestLB, where he developed market-oriented global research, focussing on both external debt and local markets (FX and fixed income). Prior to this, he was Senior Economist for Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) at Chase Manhattan Bank, then JPMorgan-Chase. During this time, his team ranked in the top three analysts for the Europe, Africa and Middle East (EAME) region by Credit Magazine in Spring 2000. He was also a member of the Chase research team ranked No 1 in Emerging Market Research in both 1999 and 2000 by Institutional Investor. Giancarlo has also been an economist for the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), a consultant for the World Bank and a visiting professor at Franklin College. He holds a BA in Social and Economic Sciences from Universita’ Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, and an MA in Political Economy from Johns Hopkins University.

Mike joined Matrix in February 2010. He was most recently a Director of Exotic and Flow Interest Rate Derivatives to major Hedge Funds at Credit Suisse, advising clients on macro and relative value strategies. Prior to this, he was Co-Head of Interest Rate Hedge Fund Sales at UBS, focusing on highly liquid strategies. Mike developed his investment methodologies as a proprietary trader at Merrill Lynch (New York), Bear Stearns (London) and Paloma Partners. He has over 17 years of professional experience in the financial industry and holds a BA in Economics from Colgate University.